narcotic
narcotic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 36 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
- 2.A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- azotic
- catching
- contagion
- contagious
- deadly
- death
- deleterious
- epidemic
- epizootic
- indigestible
- infectious
- innutritious
- insalubrious
- insalubrity
- killing
- malaria
- mephitic
- morbific
- noisome
- noxious
- pestiferous
- pestilent
- pestilential
- plague
- poison
- poisonous
- pot
- septic
- spot
- taking
- the
- toxic
- toxicity
- venomous
- virulent
- zymotic
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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